So, in the previous two chapters, we've done an enormous amount of work.
We created all these categories inside of Joomla!,
we dumped in a ton of articles with images and article formatting, all kinds of
stuff, and now here we are in the front end of the Web site, and it looks like
we've done absolutely nothing for the last however long it's been.
All we've got here to show for this is one page on the home page, and that's
because we haven't finished our CAM yet;
Categories, Articles, and Menus.
So, we're finally on to creating menu items.
We need to link to our content, it will show up here in Main Menu, and then we
can navigate around on the Web site and see actually finally what we've built so far.
So it's a great place to be right now.
There are two parts to the way menus work inside of Joomla!
So, let's take a look here on the back end.
Part one is actually creating the menu links inside of Joomla!
So, if you take a look here under Menus, we have two links off of this, and the
one we're most frequently going to use is Main Menu.
So, if we go to Menus>Main Menu, we get a list of all of the menu links that
are current in the main menu, which right now there is only one, it's the home link.
We'll be adding more of these starting in the next video.
The other link off the Menus menu is the Menu Manager.
And the Menu Manager looks like this.
And what happens here is you can create more menus.
We'll actually do this in a little while. We'll create a footer menu for the Web site.
So, of course that's going to display down at the bottom of the Web site.
But right now, we only need one menu and that is our main menu.
So, if you wind up on this screen, you're in the wrong place.
You can get to the other place by over here on the left side of the screen.
You can switch to menu items, that will show you the Main Menu, or you can go
to Menus>Main Menu.
Now, this is just the way that you configure what kind of links are going to
display inside of that menu, and what kind of order they're going to appear in.
This does not control where on the Web page that menu will display.
The fact that our menu is displaying right here on the right side of the page
in this box is configured somewhere else entirely, and that is configured under
Extensions>Module Manager.
So, we have a module called Main Menu.
This controls exactly where the menu will display on the Web page, and how many
links are displaying within that menu and their formatting and so forth.
So, this is a separate part of the menu structure.
I will be covering it in a little while.
But, the first thing we're going to concentrate on in the next several videos
is creating these menu links, so that they will display on the Web page, and we
can see all of the great content that we've been working so hard on in the last two chapters.